Futuristic weapons leak for next 'Call of Duty'?

Could a futuristic weapon, a flying quadrotor with a machine gun, be one of the features in the next installment of Call of Duty?

Yes or no, the comedic weapons spoof channel on YouTube, FPSRussia is racking up a lot of hits with its video of what looks like an evolved AR.Drone with a 100-rounds-per-second machine gun on board. "It doesn't even have a technical name now, so for now, we are just going to call it Charlene," says FPSRussia host Dmitri, AKA Kyle Myers in the video.

After sending Charlene on a few missions to take out some dummy targets, Dmitri says, "If you can't wait another 15 years, my friends are telling me this baby might just be in the next Call of Duty game."

In anticipation of the May 1 reveal of the new Call of Duty game during the NBA playoffs on TNT, the official Call of Duty site has several "classified" video links that will be unlocked in upcoming days. Fueling the futuristic plot line theories: one of the already-revealed links is to FPSRussia's YouTube channel, which has been among the top-watched videos this week, with more than 2.4 million views.

Here's the PG-13 rated video (for language and dispatched dummies):

Readers, what do you think all of this means about the upcoming Call of Duty game?

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